Population Health

Terri Ripley, chair of the HIMSS Public Policy Committee and Virginia HIMSS Chapter Advocate, says to support health equity, Congress must expand telehealth access.

Deep Dive: From Google's AI for mammograms to clinical trial recruitment, digital health is tackling some of the biggest challenges in the breast cancer space.

Experts at a recent HIMSS Global Health Equity Week webinar say that technology can play a role in bridging the care gap, but it can also be used in a harmful context.

The trust is the first in the UK to be validated at the highest level for its EMR capabilities. 

The company says its name is too similar to its CarePort Health subsidiary, and is "highly likely to cause confusion."

As we have heard repeatedly over the past few months, there is a need to think of managing this pandemic in the same way we prepare for a marathon rather than a sprint, says Dr Charles Alessi, chief clinical officer, HIMSS.  

Dr. Ian Chuang, chief medical officer for Elsevier's EMEALAAP Health business, says clinicians can leverage evidence-based knowledge in a meaningful way that can help at the bedside during situations such as COVID-19.

Also, North Tees and Hartlepool NHS FT to save quarter of a million pounds through e-Observations.

Clinicians, vendors and telehealth advocates stress the importance of virtual services in expanding access to care – and noted the ways it still needs to improve. 

The program is set to begin piloting at select sites in the RWJBarnabas system by completing social determinants of health screenings for patients.